Domestic Spying and the Fear Factor

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Domestic Spying and the Fear Factor
George W. Bush, although claiming to spy on Americans with our best interests at heart, is doing exactly what the Founding Fathers feared most

January 4 2006
Counterbias.com
Steve Horowitz


George Bush is going to great lengths lately to appear belligerently steadfast in his defense of the NSA's domestic spying. "The enemy is calling somebody and we want to know who they're calling and why," he said Monday. Logical enough. Except that by not going through the FISA court, he's let his fingers do the trampling all over the Constitution.

Bush's conservative apologists angrily respond (they're always so angry!) that most Americans, including Democrats, support the administration's gang-rape of our civil liberties. (Puzzling, as conservatives theoretically oppose the expansion of big government and its powers. ) But what the apologists overlook is that most Americans once supported racial segregation and withholding the vote from women. So "the popular will" doesn't matter as much as they'd like. (If it did, Al Gore would be president.)

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1. Bush/Cheney are primarily spying on those who oppose their policies

That is the whole point of avoiding any regulation of course. There would be no other reason.

They want to search anyone and everyone and be able to threaten or blackmail whoever they need to.

Why else would they avoid. It's all about absolute control and total submission. It has nothing to do with the truth.

They can edit whatever they want.

This is why it is illegal.